Yum in 'diff' mode (was:Re: Fedora14 is filling up my HDD without a reason)

[Lamar Owen]

On Friday, May 13, 2011 09:01:57 AM Joel Rees wrote:

> If I have, say, 90M of updated packages, are you saying that having
> the old packages in my cache somehow saves bandwidth? Has yum been
> upgraded to run in diff mode, then? That would be good news, indeed,
> although I haven't seen such evidence in the download sizes.

If you want download size reduction as you mention above using a 'diff' mode, try out the presto plugin.  Do a:
yum install yum-presto
and see what I mean.

Doesn't help with the metadata, though.